Christmas Party - Help me stay sane!!!!

we don't have one!!!

Hubby had one on Sat, though.  boooring.  Sat at a table with his uncle and cousins.  Looked at all the white trash    strange people in too short dresses bending over the bar.  Kept myself occupied watching other people.   Drank.  Ate.  Drank more.  Heck, it was an open bar so drank.  I think most the time more than half the folks were outside smoking even though it was cold. 

We did get our pics taken with one of the Bud horses, though. 

ahhh.... just people watch.   Plan your day.  Mentally undress people (or not). 

huh, you said it's tonight and you posted this at almost 9pm?  oh, wait, you're somewhere else....

Good luck!  HAVE FUN!!

hehe - yeah tonight is still about 4 and a half hours away for me!!! But I knew I could trust BT'ers for some handy hints!

Force them to become interesting, at least in theory. 

Ask them to clarify the rumor you heard regarding their New Year's Resolution ... 'So, I heard this year you were taking up base jumping!  Or was that free-basing?'  Get outrageous - you might strike a rich vein of interesting things.

Start a conversation around the best base for a wine cellar ... how long can you leave that Dom lying down?

Go on line now and pull up some bad Christmas jokes.

Poll folks on family traditions, good bad or otherwise.

Take any three of the odd conversations in COJ and offer it up with an Aussie twist.  Do you have burritos down under?

Throw video vs audio iPod Nano on the discussion table and let them duke it out ... slink away home for some good wine.

Enjoy!

Well to answer how it went I think something like the above wouldnt have been too far wrong! I decided to drink cocktails....oops....talked loudly and was very opinionated all night long, and just got to work with a coke (the real stuff not diet), meat pie and sausage roll in my hand...late of course!!!

hehe oh well.....home to bed for me after work!

Now i probably should start a thread about hangover cures!!!!

CitySky - 2005-12-21 10:00 AM Sounds like you made the best you could of a dreadful situation. Cheers! Our X-mas party is actually pretty decent. This year, I made it a lot better by putting be a great dancer. We had a blast. And he really is my friend, not a paid escort. (Somebody actually asked if he was a dance instructor!) It's all about making the best of the situation at hand.

Thanks that is a grreat way of looking at it!!! I actually ended up having a much better ngiht than expected and made the most of the situation!!! Wow thanks!

Office party (since Lara said to obsess about myself):

It's a party with all engineers.  Oh the boredom there.  I may be an engineer by degree...not by mentality or social skills.  A few appetizers, glass of wine for the wife, white russian for me.  Socialize.....dinner...then the FUN  begins.  We get called up one at a time in order of how long we've been with the company, newest person first.  We get out holiday bonus then get to pick a wrapped gift off the table.  Gift was okay....each gift had a DVD in it so I got to trade "Catwoman" for "The Mummy".  Oh yeah, that "BONUS".... $1 for every month with the company.  ONE FREAKIN DOLLAR!!!!  Don't blow my $20 in one place.  DOH!!!!